GRC salary: $200K median
The median advertised GRC salary is $200K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $159K to $235K: counted from 295 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $96 an hour or $16,667 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $285K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll GRC jobs
$200Kmedian advertised salary
$159K – $235Kmiddle half of roles
$203Kaverage advertised salary
295roles counted
GRC salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $225K, 22% more than senior roles ($185K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $185K | $165K–$216K | 79 |
| Lead and above | $225K | $195K–$265K | 85 |
| No level in the title | $178K | $144K–$228K | 131 |
GRC salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 106 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $220K | 23 |
| 🇺🇸California | $217K | 124 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $210K | 59 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $205K | 265 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $185K | 23 |
Skills that pay more for GRC roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI agents | $225K | +$25K | 34 |
| LLM | $222K | +$22K | 56 |
| Kubernetes | $216K | +$16K | 33 |
| CI/CD | $216K | +$16K | 49 |
| Application security | $216K | +$16K | 49 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Lambda | $322K | 4 |
| Anthropic | $308K | 14 |
| Ripple | $260K | 5 |
| Roblox | $248K | 5 |
| Vanta | $244K | 17 |
| OpenAI | $242K | 17 |
| Pure Storage | $228K | 3 |
| Zania | $225K | 9 |
| Mercury | $215K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $212K | 3 |
| Drata | $205K | 9 |
| Fivetran | $204K | 5 |
| GitLab | $203K | 3 |
| Socure | $202K | 5 |
| Baseten | $200K | 3 |
| Okta | $198K | 3 |
| Brex | $194K | 6 |
| Cloudflare | $186K | 5 |
| Plaid | $172K | 4 |
| Pathward, N.A. | $170K | 3 |
| Smartsheet | $170K | 3 |
| Airwallex | $169K | 5 |
| True Anomaly | $168K | 4 |
| Crusoe | $165K | 4 |
| Whoop | $150K | 7 |
Highest-paying open GRC roles
All GRC jobs- Head of DesignVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$365K - $513KRemoteLead and aboveSOC 2ISO 27001Design systems
- Lead - Security Controls Assurance - SOXAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY | Was…$410K - $510KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- IT Software Architect, SaaS Enablement and GovernanceOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KHybridAI agentsData qualityIncident response
- Security GRC LeadMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$350K - $425KLead and abovePythonSQLLLM
- Security Lead, Product and Infrastructure (InfoSec)River AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KLead and aboveDeep learningIncident responseIAM
- Staff Security Engineer, Risk EngineeringAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$320K - $405KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Security EngineerLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$230K - $395KHybridGoPythonMachine Learning
- Senior Security Engineer - Enterprise SecurityLambda · Bellevue Office$266K - $395KHybridSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Account Executive, EnterpriseVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$310K - $365KRemoteSOC 2ISO 27001MEDDIC
- Strategic Account Executive, Named AccountsTranscend · 🇺🇸Remote (United States)$150K - $350KRemoteGoLLMSnowflake
- Applied AI Architect, CyberOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$295K - $345KHybridPythonJavaScriptCI/CD
- Principal Security GRC AnalystRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$288K - $336KLead and aboveGRCRisk management
- Director, Product Legal (EmFi & Payments)Airwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$240K - $330KHybridLead and abovePRDsCard paymentsRegulatory compliance
- Lead Corporate Security EngineerSuno · 🇺🇸San Francisco$276K - $330KLead and abovePythonTypeScriptREST APIs
- Cloud Security LeadReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $325KHybridLead and abovePythonTerraformGCP
- Senior Manager, Operations Strategy, Information SecurityAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$270K - $320KHybridSeniorIncident responseIAMVulnerability management
- Enterprise Account Executive (South Central)Lumos · 🇺🇸United States$260K - $320KRemoteSolution sellingMEDDICGRC
- Enterprise Account Executive (SoCal)Lumos · 🇺🇸United States$260K - $320KRemoteSolution sellingMEDDICGRC
- Director, Governance Risk & ComplianceFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$235K - $317KLead and aboveCISSPCISMCISA
- Sr. Manager, Security — Continuous Monitoring v 2.0Databricks · 🇺🇸Remote - California$183K - $314KRemoteSeniorPythonGCPAzure
Questions about GRC pay
- What is the average GRC salary?
- $203K a year on average and $200K at the median, across 295 open GRC postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $159K to $235K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest GRC pay?
- Lambda ($322K), Anthropic ($308K), Ripple ($260K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a grc a high-paying job?
- The median GRC posting advertises $200K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 15% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a grc?
- A tenth of the postings offer $285K a year or more; the highest open GRC role advertises up to $513K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the GRC salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $200K a year is about $96 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,667 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $76 to $113 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for GRC roles?
- Postings that ask for AI agents (+$25K, 34 postings), LLM (+$22K, 56 postings), Kubernetes (+$16K, 33 postings) advertise more than the $200K median of all GRC postings with pay.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for GRC roles at companies is $200K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $159K to $235K. Counted from 295 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/grc/
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